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October 26, 2016, 09:41
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Catch up, please
Have you noticed he tremendous lag in vocabulary catching up to technical innovation? A prime example is people (generally those of us “in our prime”) who still call a refrigerator an icebox.

But the practice is also obvious today. The other day YouTube showed an amusing incident and the person who recorded t said, “I got that on film!” despite the fact it was most certainly being electronically recorded. Same thing with I have it on tape.” Videotape is years in the past, and actual film is only used for specialized purposes.

Can you think of other out-dated verbiage?
October 26, 2016, 11:26
Geoff
Privacy

Digital (pertaining to fingers)

Station wagon/estate wagon (now it's Ess Ewe Vee)

Shinola
October 26, 2016, 15:54
BobHale
dial (a telephone number)


"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
October 27, 2016, 09:00
Geoff
Slop buckets. Still around, but few if any urbanites have ever seen one.

BTW, Bob, I still have a dial telephone, although it's not in use.
October 29, 2016, 20:29
Kalleh
"Hail a cab" - instead of booking an Uber.